{"id":3430,"date":"2008-06-17T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/17\/the-suddenness-of-things-2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:56:02","slug":"the-suddenness-of-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/17\/the-suddenness-of-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suddenness of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Nexus Graphica co-conspirator Mark London Williams penned this moving, heartfelt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/columns\/graphica274.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">appreciation<\/a> of the late comic book shop pioneer Rory Root and his impact on Mark\u2019s life and art.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">And then came Comic Relief, Rory\u2019s store, opening up near the top of University Avenue. It was crammed with mainstream, underground, foreign and &ldquo;adult&rdquo; releases, and was one of the first retailing spaces to get behind those collected, bound &ldquo;graphic novel&rdquo; thingies that are so <span style=\"font-style: italic\">au courant<\/span> right now. <\/p>\n<p>The irony was, I had already moved down the I-5 here to the Pueblo of Angels (where, NorCal ex-pat that I am, I remain while my sons do their own growing \u2014 though I\u2019m not convinced the water will hold out, down here, but again, another column entirely). But I return to the Bay Area\u2019s auld sod often, and I\u2019d pop in to Comic Relief whenever I could.<\/p>\n<p>Rory was kind enough, in the early days of my <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerboy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Danger Boy<\/a><\/span><\/span> books, to sponsor a signing for me at the San Diego Comic-Con, since the original Tricycle Press editions of the first two books featured covers by the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Promethea<\/span><\/span> art team of J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, and Jeromy Cox. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t say we were overwhelmed by long lines of fans, in those earliest days of the book\u2019s release, but I always appreciated Rory\u2019s willingness to help another Berkeley brother out, even if he was writing prose with no interior pictures. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/columns\/graphica274.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/rory.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/17\/the-suddenness-of-things\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">The Suddenness of Things<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Nexus Graphica co-conspirator Mark London Williams penned this moving, heartfelt appreciation of the late comic book shop pioneer Rory Root and his impact on Mark\u2019s life and art. 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